Chapter 72:
By gaining the Demonic Will and establishing a Demonic Core, Chun Ma has reached the Seedling Step.
Now, all he needed to do was absorb more Demonic Qi into his core.
"The Qi is measured by time," he muttered. "A yearâs worth of Demonic Qi would naturally take a year to accumulate. But to reach the Sapling Stage, I need sixty yearsâ worth of Demonic Qi. Obviously, I canât afford to wait sixty years."
"The only way to speed up absorption is by consuming pills and other resources."
Chun Ma heaved a tired sigh.
If he wanted to progress any faster, he would need to find and stockpile pills.
Thankfully, with all his skills and titles, his natural absorption rate was already about four times faster than normal.
That would reduce the time, bringing it down to around fifteen years, but even that clearly wasnât enough.
Regardless, Chun Ma simply laid down to meditate.
Before him, the gates(trials) looked like nothing more than toothpicks, he could casually go through them to clean his teeth if he wanted.
There was nothing to worry about.
"Oh well. Iâll go into a temporary retreat for now and help the main body after that," Chun Ma muttered casually.
Having made up his mind, Chun Ma settled into temporary seclusion.
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[You have reached Fourth-Circle Mage. You have been rewarded the title The wind was icy and sharp, slicing through the air like blades as it rustled past his long golden hair.
The trees were sparse of leaves, and the surrounding chill sent a shiver down oneâs spine, marking the arrival of winter.
Eryke looked around and could faintly see bubbles appearing along the streets, faint, fleeting, and distant.
Very few people had them, and all those who did had glanced at him at least once.
"These are peopleâs emotions, huh?"
He clenched his fist, a smile spreading across his face.
Shaking his head, Eryke closed the window and turned to check on his clone.
"My earlier calculations were off. It only took me four days to reach Tier Four, but for Chun Ma in the Martial World, twenty days have already passed," Eryke mused.
Regardless, he was still the first to reach Fourth-Circle.
The clones werenât far behind, quickly catching up, it just took them longer because of the time needed to refine their spells.
After a few moments, two prompts appeared in front of him:
[You have reached Fourth-Circle Mage. You have been rewarded the title